The write stuff
It's a little funny how I got into journalism. It hadn't been my first choice of a career, though at a young age I always loved reading magazines and the such. But in university,I'd actually studied cinema and radio production. Coming out into the real world when I'd graduated, I quickly realized that neither was going to be a viable option.
Why do I talk about this now? Because I'm slowly rediscovering the love I have for the written word. it might sound a little odd considering this has been my career for the past ten years or so (omg have I really been working that long!?) but somewhere along the line it had become more of a chore because I was just churning out text for the sake of it and not writing for the love of it. It's a fine line I guess - there's no way you can ever get out of writing things that you may not necessarily want to and often those can be good learning experiences too. But in the last few months, I've gone back to really reading and absorbing wonderfully written articles that's really inspired me.
And the funny thing I've discovered is that I'm also starting to feel the same way about photography. And combining the two is an idea that makes me buzz with excitement. Personally, I'm not sure I possess enough skill to take photos that matter or have any sort of impact to anyone but that doesn't really matter. What matters in the end is that it matters to me and hopefully someone somewhere out there will relate to it.